Wheat, through the last three periods

The record dates Wheat Field in Rain to 1889. Thirty-one titles in this catalogue name wheat, and twenty-eight of them fall in the last three years: ten dated 1888, ten dated 1889 and eight dated 1890, with one in 1885 and two in 1887. The motif runs through all three of the last periods as this site divides them, which few others do.

What the record gives

The canvas measures 73.5 by 92.5 centimetres, within a centimetre of the catalogue's commonest recorded format, and it is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of two entries here in that collection, the other dated 1887. The measured palette reads as green.

Weather in a title

Three titles in this catalogue name rain: this one, dated 1889, and two dated 1890, one of them a haystack under a rainy sky. Weather words are rare in the record and they cluster at the end of the decade. Forty-one titles contain the word field, seventeen of them dated 1889 — the largest count of any year. Those are counts over titles, and they carry no implication about what the pictures look like, which this page has not seen.